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Many years ago I started hanging out with a wonderful group of Halo players who formed a clan called the Halo Wheelmen. While I never officially joined their ranks I played many MANY games of Halo, Destiny, Gears, and a variety of other multiplayer games with them because they were good people in all the ways a person can be good.

It sounds SO GOOD to roll dice in the dice tray, and they even made the bottom color blue because YEAH BLUE!!

I am very excited to use this in a D&D game! It's super functional and is gonna save me a lot of space in my bag for all of the random little things I usually have to bring!

So yea, this might read like a commercial for their box. But these are friends of mine who I have known for years, starting a small company, making a cool product, and are good people. I have nothing but love for this, and am happy to preach all over the internet about how awesome Polymorph Crafts are.

Today is Rosh Hashanah, the New Year according to the Jewish calendar. May this new year bring you and your family joy, happiness, and peace.

It may be odd to think about a new year right now for most of us, as we are so engorged in the Gregorian calendar that the new year is still several months away. But a lot of the things we traditionally try to do at that time (change habits, make resolutions, make positive life changes, enjoy some nice champaign) are things can and should happen all the time. So think of today as us Jews giving you a second chance at all of those New Years Resolutions you had for 2017.

Bart Carroll is the Digital Marketing Manager for Wizards of the Coast/Dungeons & Dragons. He's starting up a livestream on the D&D Twitch channel of Dragon+, last week was the first week and this week this guest is Chris Lindsay (D&D Product Manager) and....ME!

That's right, thanks to this little D&D podcast a bunch of Rooster Teeth fans started a few years ago, I'm now showing up on Wizards Podcasts on a regular basis.

One of the coolest compliments I have ever received was having some talented photographers get excited to take pictures of an event I was running. And then GETTING those photos is pretty amazing! Our Dungeon Drunks D&D game at RTX was a blast, but now I'm starting to see the collection of shots that @DarkBowler and @ragingterror took and it's been an extra shot of joyful memories and this time in high definition!

You can check out Connor's image gallery on his website, which includes not just Dungeon Drunks shots but stuff from all over RTX! And recently Nathan gave me a whole batch of finished photos and I am in such awe I had to share some!!

A few shots of several of us:

Nathan had some fun with black and white shots, and this one highlights the fun and drinking at the same time:

Wizards of the Coast announced the Tomb of Annihilation, the next huge adventure for D&D players. Then they had the Stream of Annihilation showing off all sorts of content creators doing Twitch streams highlighting that upcoming release. As everyone knows all good things come in threes, and so prepare for…

10 different live play D&D podcasts have teamed up with Wizards of the Coast to bring you a week of special content all related to the Tomb of Annihilation release. Starting on September 18th with two episodes every day all week you can hear some of the best D&D podcasts creating awesome shows to celebrate the adventures we will have in Chult. These episodes will be featured on Wizard’s own Dungeon Delve podcast feed, along with bonus content and exciting crossovers!

Dungeon Drunks is proud and honored to be one of those podcasts!

If you are already a fan and subscriber to our podcast you’ll get our special Podcasts of Annihilation episode like normal from the Dungeon Drunks feed! But we highly recommend checking out the other podcasts participating in this event, as they are filled with wonderful, talented, creative, hysterical D&D fans who are just like us; in love with D&D and making awesome entertainment for you to enjoy. Plus you should absolutely subscribe to the Dungeon Delve feed so you can hear all of the special games. Some Dungeon Drunks players will be showing up on other podcasts, and our DM is doing something special with all the other DMs that you won’t want to miss!

My favorite part of any convention, but RTX in specific, is my friends. The ones I only see once or twice a year. The new ones I make over the course of a few days. The amazing people I get to hang out with all day every day for a few days.

I'm trying to be better about taking pictures. Finding the right balance between enjoying the moment and documenting it for later. One of the ways I've tried to do that is be much better about taking pictures with people. Hugs and selfies.

The most recent episode of Dungeon Drunks had me drinking a mixer that included Hydra Hooch, a moonshine suffused with ghost peppers to make it THE HOTTEST THING ON THE PLANET.

This lethal but delicious concoction, as well as the amazing label, was crafted by @Ethan & @BunnyMonster who had been brewing this delight for months before RTX. We'd talked a bit about it ahead of time, brainstorming the snake oil that Waylon would be selling and what he would call it. It was such a wonderful gift I actually wrote it into the game I ran at RTX!

If you were at that game, or heard it on the podcast, you know that might have been a mistake. :D

There was plenty that could come home with me, but as nice as the bottle was I didn't want to risk glass in my checked bag. Fortunately @GoobertheGr8 helped fixed that problem!

That is a gorgeous flask made for me (and others for my wonderful players) which was not only a lovely gift but PERFECT to put the Hydra Hooch in to save for the trip!

So now I have a D&D flask filled with D&D drink that will kill me in medium quantities. I asked on Twitter for suggestions for what to mix this with and my Dad actually suggested pomegranate juice which ended up being DELICIOUS! I called it Dragon's Blood and that's what I drank last week.

This next episode I'll probably go with what Beka recommended which was chocolate liqueur, but I will still have PLENTY after that. Any other suggestions?

I love Luke McKay for a large variety of reasons. One of those many reasons is that he is a wonderful partner for Dungeons & Dragons. He is a fun person to play with, a great DM, an awesome host of games, and will produce amazing art in the middle of games on the fly.

When I moved out to Seattle and rekindled my love of D&D, one of my first chances to DM was at Luke's birthday party in 2011. He wanted to do a huge D&D party, so I brought the 4th Edition Red Box and we spent all day running through the adventure in that Starter Set. It was Luke's first time playing D&D, it was one of my first experiences running a game, and it was a load of fun!

Look at me doing Dungeons & Dragons & Drunks even way back then!

For many years, while Luke still lived in Canada, as my home game ran through all kinds of adventures Luke would join us when he could. Sometimes just a game or two, hanging out drawing stuff while we played. Sometimes he would run an NPC. On rare occasions he would come down for chunks of time and be able to play in a whole campaign. In early 2014 we created a bunch of high level characters and ran through the 4th edition version of Tomb of Horrors, which I've been thinking about recently with the new Tomb of Annihilation coming out soon.

Luke played a Warforged Tank named Pulse.

Pulse had one job, and he did that job super well. Luke would run him in front of all the enemies and make them all come to him and fight him. He was an old school tank; super hard to hit, had tons of health, and prevented anyone from running away from him. Pulse was amazing, keeping deadly enemies away from squishier targets like my Hengeyokai Ranger.

Karian was super fun to play, because as a Hengeyokai he could turn into a dog. No other animals, and not a wolf, but very specifically a DOG. So I played him like a mutt with the personality of a golden retriever. Happy, loyal, maybe a little dumb, and ADORABLE.

Not only was Luke great fun to play with, but after every game I'd look over at his sketchbook and he'd have some amazing bit of art. He managed to roll play, participate in combat, AND draw all at the same time!

We survived the Tomb of Horrors, and many other adventures. Luke has now run a few games, and continued to draw amazing characters. He's my go to person when I need to talk through ideas and issues I'm having when I'm creating D&D adventures, and always has insightful comments and ideas.

Right now as I type this he's hard core printing books to bring to sell at RTX in a few days. But even while he's doing that he's helping me finalize the D&D&D panel, and talking about drawing something special for the game. Make sure to stop by his booth at RTX, say hi, and ask him about his latest D&D character. Maybe he'll show you his sketches.

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Finally listening to the LNJJ holiday special, and at the same time was linked to this. Figured it seemed appropriate for potentially dirty geeky things, although I'm not sure how well it would fit in the category of new things you could actually read on the air. At the very least, maybe you can enjoy it :) Also, I'll be back on Tuesday! No work!

Yeah, I know. I figured I'd try it again because our internet wasn't working at home and... no problems at all. But I know it's been damaged and so will Verizon if something else goes wrong and I try to get a new one via warranty so I might as well just take the replacement that will be here today. The plus side is that I can use the old one to make sure the new one is set up correctly, heh.

I'm so mad because the one side mission I decided not to do... was the one that started everything with Riddler and so I missed a huge chunk of stuff I could have been doing while I was going through the game.

I beat everything, finished the stupid catwoman thing, and was like "well, let's check out the ol' church here..." and swore so much when I realized I was stumbling on what was missing from my entire game.

I found a ton of ? trophies for catwoman/batman but that was it. So mad at myself, you don't even know.